Your power is mighty 
as nations quiver at your build,
Ever awed by the mass of disobedience
Given by you - 
Joined to the bank of Suez,
crashing the banks of the world.
I know you're listening...
are you listening?
to the harsh?
to the violence of my steel,
wrecking your soft clay?
I'm sorry it must go this way,
tugged at either end
by a planet praying to convince hope,
desperate for an infographic to explain away the pain.
When the pirates steal clothes
from the AliExpress order you placed weeks ago,
I hope they wear it stylishly,
as if they were the crown jewels
stolen from a monarch dethroned.
We're all pretenders now.